Michelle Bellamy

Lady Emily Hut is found up on the mountainside in the Cass Valley in the Glenmore Station on the western side of Lake Tekapo and has been purpose built for ski touring and hiking. It is a wonderful place to explore, with gentle basins and expansive views. From Lady Emily Hut the outlook up and down the Cass Valley are spectacular, the braided Cass river winds its way down the open valley past vast scree slopes and tussock clad mountains.

To visit Lady Emily Hut you need to get access from Will & Emily at the Glenmore Station, then you can walk, bike or 4WD up the valley flat to a lower hut called Memorial Hut. From there you’ll need to cross a small but brutally cold river that will chill your leg bones thoroughly, and then follow a steep route up a spur on the true right of the waterfall for about an hour. Once you are over the top you will be rewarded with the most lovely views of the hut and surrounds and of course the beautiful valley views. – Michelle Bellamy 

This limited edition print is available in 4 sizes:

image size 340 x 510mm (paper size 450 x 610mm) $290 unframed

image size 500 x 750mm (paper size 610 x 855mm) $390 unframed

image size 667 x 1000mm (paper size 775 x 1100mm) $750 unframed

image size 800 x 1200mm (paper size 900 x 1300mm) $1250 unframed

Total edition size of 150 regardless of size;  ie only 150 prints of the particular image will ever be produced.

Michelle Bellamy is a contemporary painter living in Nelson, specialising in capturing the New Zealand landscape with exquisite detail.

An avid mountaineer, Bellamy takes inspiration from exploring the corners and nooks of New Zealand’s lakes and surrounding inhabited landscapes. Back in the studio she creates meticulously detailed large and mid-scale paintings in acrylic on board. Her captivating geographic representations register and acknowledge a human presence on the landscape through the inclusion of familiar features such as South Island cribs and huts, set amongst exquisitely rendered tussock grasses and native flora. Bellamy’s precision brushwork and skilful layering of colour serves to intensify the clarity of New Zealand’s natural light and beauty.

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